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Focus 1: Understanding words

Word analysis and vocabulary development - lessons and activities:

• Use a dictionary to learn the meanings of words
• Recognize and produce all letter-sound correspondences, including consonant blends and digraphs, and vowel digraphs and diphthongs
• Blend sounds using knowledge of letter-sound correspondences in order to decode unfamiliar, but decodable, multisyllabic grade-level words
• Decode by analogy using knowledge of known words in word families to read unfamiliar grade-level words (e.g. given the known word boat, read coat, moat, goat)
• Decode grade-level words using knowledge of word structure (e.g. roots, prefixes, suffixes, verb endings, plurals, contractions, and compounds)
• Know antonyms, synonyms, and homonyms to learn new grade-level vocabulary
• Know categories of words (e.g. transportation, sports) to learn new grade-level vocabulary
• Know root words, prefixes, suffixes, verb endings, plural nouns, contractions, and compound words to learn new grade-level vocabulary
• Learn new words indirectly from reading books and other print sources to learn new words
• Read instructional-level texts with decodable and irregularly spelled words at appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression
• Read grade-level common, high frequency sight words automatically
• Use context to monitor and self-correct when checking accuracy of decoding

Focus 2: Finding Information

• Recognize book parts and their purposes including identification of author, illustrator, title page, table of contents, index, and chapter headings
• Interpret and comprehend information from a variety of graphic displays including diagrams, charts, and graphs
• Use graphic or semantic organizers to categorize and organize information
• Use text information to support point of view
• Read a wide range of instructional-level texts (fiction, non-fiction, tall tales, fairy tales, poetry, chapter books, electronic books)

Focus 3: Main Idea:

• Compare and contrast similarities and differences in information from more than one informational text
• Summarize main ideas of text orally and in writing

• Compare and contrast similarities and differences among characters and events across stories

• Understand that asking questions about text can assist in comprehension

• Engage in or lead discussion about grade-level texts, integrating multiple strategies (e.g. ask questions, clarify misunderstandings, support point of view, summarize information)

• Make connections with words and ideas in books to spoken language vocabulary and background knowledge

• Use comprehension strategies to monitor own reading (e.g. predict/confirm, reread, self-correct) to clarify meaning of text

• Read instructional-level texts with comprehension and for different purposes

• Distinguish between tall tales, fairy tales, chapter books

• Understand characters, setting, and plot in stories

• Respond to literal, inferential, and critical/application questions after listening to or reading imaginative and informational texts

• Demonstrate comprehension of grade-level text through creative response such as writing, drama, and oral presentation

• Make predictions about characters and story events

• Use own perspectives and opinions to comprehend text

• Understand that text must be evaluated for truthfulness